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Item #2712 Chiliades Adagiorvm: Opvs Integrum Et Perfectum D. Erasmi Roterodami, locupletatum &...

Chiliades Adagiorvm: Opvs Integrum Et Perfectum D. Erasmi Roterodami, locupletatum & recognitum, quem admodum in extremis conatibus autori uisum est ; Acceßit indicibus antiquis in hac impreßione nouus & tertius ...

Cologne: Ex officina Ioannis Gymnici, 1540.

Price: $6,500.00

A very fine copy bound in contemporary pigskin over beveled wooden boards, tooled in blind. The clasps lacking, some scuffing and soiling to lower board, otherwise a very nice binding. Internally a beautiful copy with the lightest of occasional soiling. Gyminus’ fine hippocamp device appears on the title.A very rare...

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Item #2455 Moriae encomium D. Erasmi Roterodami cu[m] Gerardi Listrii trium linguarum periti...

Moriae encomium D. Erasmi Roterodami cu[m] Gerardi Listrii trium linguarum periti commentariis. Praemittuntur Ludus L. Annei Senec[ae], de morte Claudii, cu[m] scholiis Beati Rhenani. Synesius Cyrenen[sis] de Laudibus caluitii. Adduntur Martini Dorpii theologi ad Erasmum epistola et Erasmi ad eandem responsio apologetica.

Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 1524.

Price: $12,500.00

Bound in contemporary limp vellum, lightly soiled. The contents are in very good condition with a few pencil annotations and light soiling to the title page. With Badius' device of his print shop, the “Praelum Ascensianum” showing printers working a press, on the title page. With large, attractive crible initials...

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Item #4595 Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi Roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit:...

Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi Roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit: caeterum diu desideratum, demum repertum non iuuenis recognouit, & uelut postliminio studiosis restituit. Ex quo reliquorum, qui diis propiciis propediem accedent, lector coniecturam facias licebit.

Basel: Apud Ioan. Froben. Mense Xbri. 1520.

Price: $12,000.00

Bound in contemporary reversed-deerskin (with minor stains and surface wear). A fine, tall, and fresh copy. Woodcut border by Hans Holbein to title page, additional woodcut borders to second leaf and the opening leaf of the text. Woodcut Froben device on verso of final leaf. Neat contemporary annotations in the...

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Item #3378 Aula Subterranea domina dominantium subdita subditorum, das ist, Untererdische...

Aula Subterranea domina dominantium subdita subditorum, das ist, Untererdische Hofhaltung: ohne welche weder die Herren regiren, noch die Unterthanen gehorchen können : oder, Grundliche Beschreibung derjenigen Sachen so in der Tieffe der Erden wachsen, als aller Ertzen der königlichen und gemeinen Metallen…

Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1684.

Price: $6,800.00

Complete with the engraved title page, which has been folded at the bottom to avoid trimming by the binder. Bound in 18th c. quarter vellum and marbled boards with some minor wear. The contents are in very fine condition. Small adhesion scar to title. Illustrated with 41 large woodcuts."Ercker's treatise...

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Item #4778 De dissectione partium corporis humani. Charles Estienne

De dissectione partium corporis humani.

Paris: Simon de Colines, 1545.

Price: $48,000.00

A truly very fine, crisp copy in 18th c. mottled French calf, the spine richly tooled in gold with floral ornaments and a red morocco label. Roman type, side-notes and index in italic. Colines' woodcut device (Schreiber's "Tempus I") on title. 62 full-page woodcut illustrations printed from 56 blocks, one...

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Item #1764 Works, in Greek. Euripidis quæ Extant Omnia: Tragoediæ nempe XX, præter ultimam,...

Works, in Greek. Euripidis quæ Extant Omnia: Tragoediæ nempe XX, præter ultimam, omnes completæ: item fragmenta aliarum plusquam LX tragœdiarum; et epistolæ V. Nunc primùm & ipsæ hùc adjectæ: scholia demùm doctorum virorum in septem priores tragœdias, ex diversis antiquis exemplaribus undiquaque collecta & concinnata ab Arsenio Monembasiæ Archiepiscopo. ... Operâ & studio Josuæ Barnes S.T.B. Emmanuelis Collegii apud Cantabrigienses Socii maximè senioris.

Cambridge: Ex officinâ Johan. Hayes, celeberrimæ Academiæ typographi. Impensis Richardi Green bibliopolæ Cantab. 1694.

Price: $2,500.00

Bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked preserving the original spine. The boards are blind-ruled in compartments; there is an attractive red morocco lettering piece, gilt, on the spine. Aside from light wear and bumping to the corners, the binding is very well preserved. Internally, this copy is in excellent condition...

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Item #3978 Esequie dell'Altezza Reale del Serenissimo Cosimo III Granduca di Toscana celebrate in...

Esequie dell'Altezza Reale del Serenissimo Cosimo III Granduca di Toscana celebrate in Firenze dall’ A.R. Del Serenissimo Gio: Gastone Granduca di Toscana descritte da Leonardo del Riccio.

Florence: nella Stamperia di S.A.R. Per li Tartini, e Franchi, 1725.

Price: $3,200.00

Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, edges of text-block sprinkled red. A very fine copy, printed on thick paper. The large, folding plate of the catafalque (51 x 35 cm.) is also in fine condition.An account of the funeral ceremonies for Cosimo III de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 30...

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Item #4025 La Sontuosa Illuminazione della Città di Torino per l'Augusto Sposalizio delle Reali...

La Sontuosa Illuminazione della Città di Torino per l'Augusto Sposalizio delle Reali Maesta' di Carlo Emmanuele Re di Sardegna e di Elisabetta Teresa di Lorena.

Turin: Gio. Battista Chais, 1737.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in contemporary marbled boards, worn and soiled, rebacked in later sheep. An unusually nice copy internally, with just the slightest toning to some plates, a few spots, clean tear to center of one plate at fold (no loss), and light finger-soiling in the margins. Magnificent engraved ornamental frontispiece by...

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Item #4720 Il trionfo di S. Gaudenzo primo vescovo, e protettore dell'inclita città di Novara...

Il trionfo di S. Gaudenzo primo vescovo, e protettore dell'inclita città di Novara nel solennissimo glorioso trasporto del sacro adorabile suo corpo seguito alli 14. giugno dell'anno 1711.

Milan: nella Regia Ducal Corte, per Marc'Antonio Pandolfo Malatesta stampatore regio camerale, 1711.

Price: $12,000.00

Bound in contemporary limp parchment (lightly soiled and a bit warped). A broad-margined copy, complete with all of the plates. There are small splits at the folds of the large plate showing the church interior and another in the blank margin (all easily mended); smaller tears to folds of several...

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Item #4594 Historica narratio profectionis et inaugurationis serenissimorum Belgii principum...

Historica narratio profectionis et inaugurationis serenissimorum Belgii principum Alberti et Isabellæ, Austriæ archiducum: et eorum optatissimi in Belgium aduentus, rerumque gestarum et memorabilium, gratulationum, apparatuum, et spectaculorum in ipsorum susceptione et inauguratione hactenus editorum accurata descriptio.

Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1602.

Price: $16,000.00

A very fine, broad-margined copy, bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (lightly soiled, some stains, corners bumped). The contents are in excellent condition, the text bright, the plates in rich impressions. Insignificant defects as follows: small crease to upper corner of t.p, p. 263-272, 304-312 with small stain at head, very...

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Item #4467 The Purple Island, Or The Isle Of Man: Together With Piscatorie Eclogs And Other...

The Purple Island, Or The Isle Of Man: Together With Piscatorie Eclogs And Other Poeticall Miscellanies. By P. F.

Cambridge: ¶ Printed by the Printers to the University of Cambridge, 1633.

Price: $5,800.00

[Bound with:] Fletcher, Giles (1585/6-1623) Christs victorie and triumph in heaven and earth, over and after death. The second edition. Cambridge: printed [by Thomas and John Buck] for Francis Green, 1632 [Bound with:] Fletcher, Phineas (1582-1650) Locustae, vel Pietas Iesuitica. Per Phineam Fletcher Collegii Regalis Cantabrigiae [Second title page:] The Locusts, or Appollyonists. By Phineas Fletcher...

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Item #4417 Chaos del tri per uno. Teofilo Folengo

Chaos del tri per uno.

Venice: Giovann’ Antonio e Pietro fratelli de Nicolini da Sabio, 1546.

Price: $4,900.00

Bound in 18th-century stiff parchment with a gilt lettering piece on the spine. A fine, clean copy with just some occ. light foxing, a marginal stain on a few leaves, and a small worm hole to the last two leaves slightly affecting the headline. Last leaf backed (and with light...

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Item #4706 Illvstrivm Imagines. Andrea Fulvio, Giacomo Mazzocchi, c., last qtr. 15th – c. 1527

Illvstrivm Imagines

Rome: Apud Iacobum Mazochium Roman[a]e Achademiae bibliopo., 15 November, 1517.

Price: $11,500.00

Bound in early 20th c. brown morocco (wear at extremities, small abrasion on spine), gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Internally a nice copy, lightly washed, bound a bit tight, light soiling to title, verso of final leaf a little dusty. Illustrated with 204 medallion portraits (white on black) within elaborate architectural...

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Item #4412 Opere di Galileo Galilei ... In questa nuoua editione insieme raccolte, e di varij...

Opere di Galileo Galilei ... In questa nuoua editione insieme raccolte, e di varij trattati dell' istesso autore non piu stampati accresciute.

Bologna: per gli heredi del Dozza, [1655]-, 1656.

Price: $35,000.00

Two volumes bound in matching contemporary vellum, lightly soiled. Internally, a fine, broad-margined set with the usual variable light paper toning associated with this edition and scattered light foxing. Minor faults as follows: a paper repair to the blank margin of one leaf and two short marginal tears, far from...

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Item #4717 Historiae animalium Liber III qui est de avium natura. Conrad Gessner, also Gesner

Historiae animalium Liber III qui est de avium natura.

Zürich: Christoph Froschauer, 1555.

Price: $16,500.00

Illustrated with 217 fine woodcuts of birds. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled calfskin over beveled wooden boards (lacking clasps but with catch-plates preserved, sympathetic restorations to leather of spine, corners, and turn-ins, a few small portions of the leather of the boards patched, minor cracks or small defects to the leather...

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Item #4659 Habes Optime Lector, his Opusculis, nunc primo editis, adversus Lutheranam...

Habes Optime Lector, his Opusculis, nunc primo editis, adversus Lutheranam Impietatem…

Venice: [Lucantonio Giunta], 1537.

Price: $4,800.00

Bound in near-contemporary stiff vellum, with front endpapers renewed; spine bands exposed but otherwise holding firmly. Early ex-libris in block capitals on front board, “Cat. Alf.”, with corresponding manuscript inscription at foot of title-page, not quite legible. A very good copy; with a handful of manuscript manicules added by an...

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Item #4768 Vocabulario en lengua de Mechuacan. [and:] Aqui comienca el vocabulario en la lengua...

Vocabulario en lengua de Mechuacan. [and:] Aqui comienca el vocabulario en la lengua Castellana y Mechuacana. Compuesto por el muy reverendo Padre fray Maturino Gylberti de la orden del seraphico Padre sant Francisco.

Mexico: En casa de Juan Pablos Bressano, 1559.

Price: $65,000.00

Recently rebound in early vellum. A very good if slightly defective copy (missing five leaves) of an extremely rare book, most extant copies of which are incomplete. With scattered early annotations, minor damp-staining to the last half of volume. Title page to Part II printed in red and black, with...

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Item #3858 Discorsi... intorno al comporre de i Romanzi, delle Comedie, e delle Tragedie, e di...

Discorsi... intorno al comporre de i Romanzi, delle Comedie, e delle Tragedie, e di altre maniere di Poesie. Con la tavola delle cose piu notabili in tutti essi discorsi contenute.

Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari e fratelli, 1554.

Price: $3,600.00

Contemporary limp vellum, colored edges, some light marginal foxing, v. light stain on p. 80. A very nice copy with the 18th-c. engraved bookplate of Felice Durando Count of Villa (1729-1791), famous for his erudition and his famous library. With the printer's device on the title page and at the...

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Item #3700 The art of glass. Shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel....

The art of glass. Shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel. Likewise the making of pearls, precious stones, china and looking-glasses. To which is added, the method of painting on glass and enameling. Also how to extract the colours from minerals, metals, herbs and flowers. A work containing many secrets and curiosities never before discovered. Illustrated with proper sculptures. Written originally in French, by Mr. H. Blancourt, and now first translated into English. With an appendix, containing exact instructions for making glass-eyes of all colours.

London: printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon, D. Midwinter and Tho. Leigh at the Rose and Crown, and R. Wilkin at the King’s-Head in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1699.

Price: $6,850.00

Bound in contemporary English paneled calf, rebacked. Very fine condition. Two plates lightly browned, marginal foxing to a few leaves. Illustrated with 9 engraved plates of glass-making furnaces, tools, crucibles, and other apparatus.The core of Blancourt's text is Christopher Merret's annotated Latin edition (1668) of Antonio Neri's "L'Arte Vetraria"(1612). Merret...

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Item #4591 De Confessione Amantis. John Gower, 1325?-1408

De Confessione Amantis.

London: In Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelette, 1554.

Price: $20,000.00

Bound in 19th c. speckled calf (rebacked in paler calf, corners bumped), boards ruled in gold, edges tooled in gold, spine richly gilt. Generally a nice, clean copy with scattered minor faults, as follows: A few tiny wormholes to the first few leaves, title lightly soiled and margins lightly foxed...

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Item #4627 De Confessione Amantis. John Gower, 1325?-1408

De Confessione Amantis.

London: In Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelette printer to the kingis grace, 1532.

Price: $48,000.00

Bound in 19th c. russia, boards ruled by a triple filet, gilt. Spine ruled in compartments, author, title and date on spine, gilt. The title is printed within a decorative woodcut border copied from master printer Geoffroy Tory. Text in black letter, double columns. With 16th c. signatures of John...

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Item #4367 Fasciculus rerum expetendarum ac fugiendarum : in quo primu[m] continetur Concilium...

Fasciculus rerum expetendarum ac fugiendarum : in quo primu[m] continetur Concilium Basiliense non illud, quod in magno Concilior[um] volumine vulgo circumfertur, sed quod Aeneas Syluius (qui postea Pius II. est appelatus) & eidem Concilio praesens interfuit, fideliter, & eleganter conscripsit. Insunt praeterea huic operi nobilissimo

Cologne: Ex aedibus nostris [Peter Quentel], 1535.

Price: $7,500.00

Bound in 19th-century quarter calf, rebacked with spine preserved, some wear to extremities. A very good copy with occ. light foxing and scattered pencil notes in the margins. Light stain to one leaf (X4), last leaf verso lightly soiled. With numerous fine woodcut historiated initials. Elaborate woodcut title border by...

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Item #3492 The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants. And several...

The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants. And several other Lectures, Read before the Royal Society.

London: printed by W. Rawlins, for the Author, 1682.

Price: $15,000.00

A VERY FINE, LARGE PAPER COPY. Illustrated with eighty-three engraved plates, five of which are double-paged. This copy is bound in contemporary, mottled calf (some abrasions to boards, joints rubbed, small losses at head and foot of spine), spine ornately tooled in gold. Internally, this copy is in fine condition...

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Item #4758 The family-physician, and the house-apothecary. Containing I. Medicines against all...

The family-physician, and the house-apothecary. Containing I. Medicines against all such diseases people usually advise with apothecaries to be cured of. II. Instructions, whereby to prepare at your own houses all kinds of necessary medicines that are prepared by apothecaries, or prescribed by physicians. III. The exact prices of all drugs, herbs, seeds, simple and compound medicines, as they are sold at the druggists, or may be sold by the apothecaries. IV. That it’s plainly made to appear, that in preparing medicines thus at your own houses, that it’s no onely a far safer way, but you shall also save nineteen shillings in twenty, comparing it with the extravagant rates of many apothecaries. By Gideon Harvey, M.D. Physician in Ordinary to his Majesty

London: printed for M. R[ookes]. and are to be sold by the booksellers of London, 1678.

Price: $4,800.00

A fine copy of this charming book, bound in its original tanned sheepskin binding (lightly worn, one corner bumped, remains of early paper label). Contents crisp with some trivial scattered finger-soiling. These practical manuals are rarely found in such fine shape.A book of medicinal recipes for home use. The author’s...

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Item #4269 Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei. Henricus de Herpf, c

Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.

Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 10 September, 1474.

Price: $45,000.00

A fine copy, in an impressive binding, of the first edition, printed by Gutenberg’s apprentice, Peter Schoeffer. Bound in contemporary Bamberg blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss 006, EBDB w000078, Bamberg Minoritenkloster], with flyleaves from vellum manuscript antiphonal, brass catch-plates with sphinxes, straps and clasps intact. Wormholes to both boards...

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